CanJam NYC 2023 Impressions Thread (February 25-26, 2023)
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Can you find a NDH30 to compare that with？Best so far for me
This is good. I loved it.
Oh man it was nice. I wish I could take it with me
DCA doesn’t stand close
Oh man it was nice. I wish I could take it with me
DCA doesn’t stand close
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I would advise you to show up first thing on Sunday morning, as it's typically one of the slowest, quietest times of any CanJam weekend, in my experience. Quite looking forward to your initial impressions of the Corina since you own all of the TOTL estats!
1. Shoutout to my brother @HONEYBOY for contributing his Grimm MU1 streamer and Mola Mola for folks to try with Woo Luna!
With my experimentations, It needs the discontinued old lineup of HRS isolation system to shine best as a stand alone amp, and/or Innuos with Sablon usb cable.
2. Whole lotta fun to compare and contrast TOTL electrostatic amps with my man @Cigavelli with his own Shang SR. We share the same findings. He will listen to my self titled “end game” system after he finish demoing HE-1 tomorrow.
3. Justin’s Grand Cayman with his tubes. It sounds fuller and bassier than last time I heard it at Capital Audio Show when more transparent and netural driver tubes were installed. The current tube choice is better for more genres as pop, and rock that I previously wasn’t crazy about listening via Cayman. I think Justin has fixed the caveats I heard last time, yet I also miss some dimensions, nuances, spatial cues, transparency, and micro dynamics from the previous tubes. After all, it is still a prototype with great potentials to grow. He should let me tweak it, just saying lol
Even for electrostatic systems, bass is not everything… Speed and dimensions also matter.
3. Daniel let me tried his Audio Technica WA2022, It looks like a childish toy in pictures but looks way better in reality as a piece of fine art and sounds as I thought it to be . It matches well with my coat.
4. As a old custom of HRS Isolation products, Just as I expected and thought, it does add a little musicalities and warmth with a better sonic result with dCS Lina stack& SUS! It is not day and night though, I found HRS works better with tube gears. This price is unprecedented among HRS rack.
This stack is superb with one can: Spirit Valkyria
5. My buddy asked if anything surprising me… it will definitely be the Aurender A20. As a previous owner of N20/ N200 dedicated streamers, I never tried nor paid attention to Aurender’s DAC in that I thought it is just for convenience as Aurender’s core technology is streaming solution. To my surprise, with that built in AKM chip, the A20 is so clean, warm and musical sounding that tamed out a lot of brightness I previously dislike about the Feliks Envy, dramatically different sounding to the N20 streamer with Esoteric which is highly detailed with pinpoint imaging, and bass attack. Considering it shares the same streamer part of N20, the price is darn good as a server/ streamer/ DAC 3 in one. The A20& Envy is my buddy @tdx’s favorite system at the show. I found that combination works way better with abyss and utopia than SUS though. Actually Auris amps are not good match to SUS in general.
What a day of fun with friends from my Summit Fi Headphone Audio club.
With my experimentations, It needs the discontinued old lineup of HRS isolation system to shine best as a stand alone amp, and/or Innuos with Sablon usb cable.
2. Whole lotta fun to compare and contrast TOTL electrostatic amps with my man @Cigavelli with his own Shang SR. We share the same findings. He will listen to my self titled “end game” system after he finish demoing HE-1 tomorrow.
3. Justin’s Grand Cayman with his tubes. It sounds fuller and bassier than last time I heard it at Capital Audio Show when more transparent and netural driver tubes were installed. The current tube choice is better for more genres as pop, and rock that I previously wasn’t crazy about listening via Cayman. I think Justin has fixed the caveats I heard last time, yet I also miss some dimensions, nuances, spatial cues, transparency, and micro dynamics from the previous tubes. After all, it is still a prototype with great potentials to grow. He should let me tweak it, just saying lol
Even for electrostatic systems, bass is not everything… Speed and dimensions also matter.
3. Daniel let me tried his Audio Technica WA2022, It looks like a childish toy in pictures but looks way better in reality as a piece of fine art and sounds as I thought it to be . It matches well with my coat.
4. As a old custom of HRS Isolation products, Just as I expected and thought, it does add a little musicalities and warmth with a better sonic result with dCS Lina stack& SUS! It is not day and night though, I found HRS works better with tube gears. This price is unprecedented among HRS rack.
This stack is superb with one can: Spirit Valkyria
5. My buddy asked if anything surprising me… it will definitely be the Aurender A20. As a previous owner of N20/ N200 dedicated streamers, I never tried nor paid attention to Aurender’s DAC in that I thought it is just for convenience as Aurender’s core technology is streaming solution. To my surprise, with that built in AKM chip, the A20 is so clean, warm and musical sounding that tamed out a lot of brightness I previously dislike about the Feliks Envy, dramatically different sounding to the N20 streamer with Esoteric which is highly detailed with pinpoint imaging, and bass attack. Considering it shares the same streamer part of N20, the price is darn good as a server/ streamer/ DAC 3 in one. The A20& Envy is my buddy @tdx’s favorite system at the show. I found that combination works way better with abyss and utopia than SUS though. Actually Auris amps are not good match to SUS in general.
What a day of fun with friends from my Summit Fi Headphone Audio club.
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The Yamaha... surprisingly lightweight and smaller than it looks in photos.
ZMF Atrium closed is very comfortable. One can have it on for long time. Can’t comment on SQ as it is noisy but not as warm as VC however the treble is better then VC
When I paired with Euforia Evo then it got too warm. Need slightly leaner amp compared to Utopia Gen 1
Now this is huge
And this is tiny
Tried FatFreq Maestro SE with Cayin N8. The sound was balanced, sub bass is deep and good controlled treble. Nice IEM. Thumbs up from me
Odin doesn’t have sub bass like Maestro but has over all balanced sound and has better detail retrieval. Very good IEM. No glaring fault.
FiR XE6 - warmest sounding but somehow the sound is not muddy. May be dream IEM for those who love warm sounding IEM. Not for those who want each and every detail.
Utopia gen 2 with the amp they had it on was dynamic , warm, punchy.
When I paired with Euforia Evo then it got too warm. Need slightly leaner amp compared to Utopia Gen 1
Now this is huge
And this is tiny
Tried FatFreq Maestro SE with Cayin N8. The sound was balanced, sub bass is deep and good controlled treble. Nice IEM. Thumbs up from me
Odin doesn’t have sub bass like Maestro but has over all balanced sound and has better detail retrieval. Very good IEM. No glaring fault.
FiR XE6 - warmest sounding but somehow the sound is not muddy. May be dream IEM for those who love warm sounding IEM. Not for those who want each and every detail.
Great suggestion. I'll try to make it back over there tomorrow.
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Fatfreq Unreleased flagship (Per Andrew @MusicTeck , they might be called the Grand Maestro)
Someone more adept at describing what they're hearing, please go try these, they unlabeled amd hiding behind the Meastro SEs lol, so very easy to miss
Roughly (with switch down) they sounded like a more balanced (slightly less bass forward, but still bass heavy) version of the Maestro SE with more microdetail. With switch up I really liked them, still bass prominent (mud and sub) but mids/vocals come forward and thought there was more treble detail, pretty strange (with switch up) but in a good way.
Just had a listen to Spirit Centauri Planar
I found it warm and sibilant. Not sure if the pairing with AudioGd amp was wrong or DAC had an issue as I don’t know what DAC they were on or if it was AudioGd wasa DAC Amp
I found it warm and sibilant. Not sure if the pairing with AudioGd amp was wrong or DAC had an issue as I don’t know what DAC they were on or if it was AudioGd wasa DAC Amp
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Has anyone got a chance to check the price of Mest Mk3, and EF600. Thanks
Someone forgot something at the FiR booth, might want to swing back by!
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